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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1912.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH. BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH.
[COPERICIT]
THE REVOLUTION.
Q.M.B.N. COMPANY'S DECISION.
"[COPYRIGHT.]
A SUBMARINE DISASTER.
SERIOUS LESS OF LIFE.
(Reuters Service to the China Mail.) (Beuter's Service to the China Mail.)
London, Feb. 2. LONDON, Feb 2
Submarine A13 has sunk in collision reports that he shareholders of the with the gunboat tiazard wast of the
Router's correspondent at Shanghai
China Merchants Storm Navigation Co. Bave resolved to thinsfer the ships of the Company to the Republicans as security Sloan, où receipt of 'amumances that the Company will la the object of the special solicitude of the Republic when the latter is fully established.
KUSSIA'S TO EXPLOIT MONGOLIA
London, Feb. 3. Reuter's correspondent at St Peters barg states that a telegram has been received from Urgi to the effect that the Mongolians intend to have to the Rassinas the exploitation of Mongolia's mineral wealth, for which compensation is to be received. Russias contractors have already arrived at Urga.
THE ABYSSINIANTM
OUTLOOK.
'AN ANXIOUS TIME. (Beuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, Feb. 3.
Isle of Wight.
A cruiser is standing by, k
FEARED ALL LOST.
IJTER.
It is feared that all on board the sub. marine are drowned. Lieut. Ormand was in commbad at the times of the disaster.
The other officers were Lieutenan's Ernest Thorntor. Denal Colis Camp. bell and Leonard Richardson, who, in company with ten mell, were carrying Que exercises and torpedo Bring with aix other submarines.
DETAILS.
CUTTI
DEVELOPING PERSIA.
BRITISH AND RUSSIAN HSIP, (Beuter's Service to the China Muil.)
[COPYRIG RUMOUR DENIED.
(Mdependent News Agency's Service
to the China M&R)*
TORT, Feb 3"- LONDON, Feb 3
The ratour that Mr Jun, the Renler learns that negotiations are japanen finister, us: Poting, will be proceding for a joint Anglo-Russian transferred, is entirely witlis ill, be
alyance to: l'ersia, probably ampliating ation. to £500,000 much.
AMOY, MUNICIPAL COU - CXLA]
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EX-PRETENDER FAVOURS MANUEL'S RESTORATION
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The collision took place when the sal-Reuters Service to the Chine Mail.)
LONDON, Feb. 2. marine was partly submerged, and the little oraft disappeared in a few minutes. Router learns that at the meeting
The officers and men on board the between ex-King Manuel and Hazard were horrised to see a large Miguel at. Dover, the latter spontaneous. escape of air when the submarine went ly offered to help to the titmost to under, indicating that she wascomplete restoration of ex-King Mannel to the
Throne. ly flooded.
The newspapers publish pictures of [Note-Tas ill-fated submarine A13 was Ixunched in 196. She had a displacement ex-King Manuel and Dom Miguel et of 204 tons and a speed of 12 krots, while Torer and reproductions of the
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The Dul, by Violet Heut
Hashimoto, V. Kikuchi, G. Kikutachi. T. Koizu Kuzuch, O. Lecomte, Leu, F. Aliss Macgregar, idrs. May ( proxy), J. A. Merlin, J. P. Morley, Dr.C. Sterz (Chairman), CA. Matton, J. Hable, Okazali, J. C. Parim: W. R. MD. Pait, (9) A. Pidale Kruse, proxy). P. Paletti W. Kton.proxy), H. F Rankia, PH. Supr, A. J. Sunding J. Takamaes LI. Thomas W.-Walls, Whit Flemington, by Vinlet Jacob deld, A. Waith, W. Wilson, C. St Creature of Circamatanes, by. Lady Worby, S. Yo-bilan
The Keepers of the Gate, by Sydney C.
Gner.
1. Dr C. Mera H. 1. 0, 31. Consul and Sening Consal, was in the easie.
2. On the motilla of the Chairman Berkeley Mitchell was appointed Secretary conveping some. to the meeting, and rund the notion 3. Mr W, H. Wallace, Chairman of the retiring Council, adil end the meeting as
Ellows:-
An Ho wa Barn, by Tom Gallon. The Green Curtain, by M. E. Braddon The Free Marriage, by J. K. Snowden.||| Flaws, by Jane Barlow
Troubridge
Reason Why by Gilyn Adrian Savage, by Malet. Wife Imperative, by Peer Long Hand, by Magney... Melville Coloste, by Knight. Centaur, by Blackwood.
Lord Crinworth, who has recently returned from Abyssinis, interviewed her armament consisted of two torpecosignatures on the blotting pad, which for the past year have now been in your Quenchless Fire, by Silaa Hocking.
by Renter, stated that there is much fighting mong the chiefs is connection with the arcession to the Throne, and the Europeans in the country are be- sowing me anxions.
The clitions of the Menelik is shrouded in mystery. It is supposed that he is living in a palace in the mid- dle of dis Abeda, where the youthful heir likewise resides. A doctor occa lonally visits him, but merely sees n carefully-swaddled living igure with his face bidder.
BRISBANE, STRIKE
SCENES...
Better's Service to the China Mail)}
LONDON, Feb. 3.
Reuter's correspondent at Brisbane. wires that 20 atrikers were injured in a collision with armed police, who were preventing & procession.
Negotiations, for a settlement of the strike have failed.
<
tubes,
The Bazard is described in the naval list as a Hext-class torpedo gunbort, used mothership for subaurines. She was launched in 1994, has a displacement of 1,070 tons and a speed of 20 knots. Har station is Portsmouth. Ev. C...
DECORATION FOR IN-
FANTE CARLOS.
(Renter's Service to the China Mail)
the journalist, who tracked Dom Miguel from Paris; photographed. » ·
LANCASHIRE TROUBLE
UNSETTLED. (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, Feb. 2. The disregard of the agreement draw up between the collon operatives and LONDON, Feb. 2.
employers by Sir G. R. Askwith be Redter's correspondent at Gibraltar. & ning alarming in several districts in reports that the King has conferred on north-west Lancashire. Molestation of the Infante Carlos the Grand Cross of non-Unionists is continuous and active the Victorian Order. ૫.
Lostility is being shown to Roman Catholice...
YEMEN COAST BOM- BARDED
(Renter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDOS, Feb. 2.
A wire from Perim states that the bombardment of the Turkish forts on the Yemen coast continued yesterday.
DEATH OF MAJ-GENI TAXI STRIKE IN PARIS.
TALBOT COKE,
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, Feb. 3.
JAPANESE CONSUL FOR
······ HONGKONG.
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AN UGLY DEMONSTRATION.
A
Advices from Reuter's correspondent
1300
Lord Stranleigh, Philanthropist, by Robert
Barr.
Dan Rasal, by Somervillo aul Rons, Mr Chairman, Mis Margregor med Love Locks Diana, by Hom. Gentlemen. The Report wil Accounts The Soul of Margaret Rand, by L. T.
Tende hans days. Although must matters have been fully dealt with, there are curtain points. huld like particularly to bring to your notice. The Twyman by Henry Newbolt First there is the expendit re on the The Ne'er do Well, by Rex Bench.
The Courtler Storpe, by J. B. Yoxall artesian well. As you are awe, est our
aking office in January last, there was The Gallant Graham, by May Wyave. rontract for this experimental arterion well & Safety Match, by Jan Hay. boring in existence, and this contract had Hilda Lesavaja, by Arnold Bennet hean entered into by a former CounciUnder Western Skies, by Joseph Conrad. with the winction of special meeting The Smugglers, by S. R. Crockett..
payer belt na the 22nd of November. The Ealing Miracle, by Horace W. O 1910. In the notice coining this special
rat+
meeting, it was stated that the meeting
Af lands inking en er the purse of smetionin this wt. enful art, sinn woll, and the spentor producing the subject to the meeting.
**This expression of experin estal "has heen used for the reason that it has been a ce tainal" (after malting such text books being on the subject as were avail. chor of cây Tedy The employers are seriously considerale in Amy, awl sit
hal cultul expino in Hongkong) ing affresh lock-out.
arte-lan, wells are it slegs necesful. Frequently a waterslering train is struck, and again water way he struck and the well not be a flowing one, Hom svar it would never akawas, whother M
SERIOUS OUTLOOK.
LATER.
Exim police are being drafted into sit si le temetke
solution of L rashire ia connection with the cotton the initiative, and there seems to other f the problemi at y consumable. vxpense." sitation.
tay ladies and gentle- Wall Ingret to say, I There in talk of a strike or a lock-out men, the experiment. successful, mủ, on Monday.
explained in the "Annual Report, be reluctantly abandoned, us there was no
AUCC'
HOME RULE FORECASTS.
CONFLICTING ASSERTIONS.
had
WAB
Secret of Police and
the
Owing to the Settlement, the
prospect of it eventually;gdrink th [and your Council were f
continuance of the work was only throwing money away. Fux par information the work began on the 19th Dec, 1910, and KAS (Reuter's Service to the China fail.) (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) finally stopped on the 15th June-a tuta!
of 179 days. The
expended was amant LONDON, Feb. 2. The deuh has occurred of Maj
LONDON, Feb. 2.
83230,84, made up as follows :-.
-Expenses art from
Formers 8154.28 passage General John Talbot Coke, who com
The Daily Chronicle, in a forecast of of expert
money freight 8150. wages 82500,00, manded the 10th Brigade of the Natal at Faris state that after a two month's the Home Rule Bill says the Irish
materials interest "elp
This eto. 84.58.
during the Field Force in the South African War.strike of taxi-cab drivers, the companies Parliament will control the customs and deficit we propose wiping off
attempted yesterday to bring out a num-excise, but that provision will be made other point i wish to touch on, is the current year as you will run by the Budget. ber of Vehicles, which were escorted by far & continuance of Anglo-Irish free
employment f RA. cuirassiers and cyclist police. One of trade. Ireland will receive as Imperial assistant to the latter fell, and a mob of atrikers subsidy of two millions yearly for fifteen pid dar sporty a celled upon to per
work your Secretary is rushed the caba and overturned five, slashing them with knives. The cuis after which she will contribute a form is ever fuoressing, and makes it quits percentage of revenue to Imperial ex-impossible for any one man to carry cut mnasiers charged the mob, and enabled, penditore. The second chamber will the multifarious dutier efficiently, besides it is always desible to have an assistent Mr Imai, the newly appointed Consul-forty cubs to resch Paris.
have a suspensory veto over legislation able to take over the secretary's work in and a joint session will decide any futely noctemary to provide him with st case of sickness, and therefore it is abo. General of Hongkong, will leave Tokyo'
assistant A suitable man cannot be for his post on the 5th just.
deadlock.
obtained under 145 a month, and we engaged or Brownlie at that figura. The good work he has put in during the past six months, and the great assistance he ha beon to the Secretary in the opinion of your Council, amply justifies the ex- penditure under this heading.
Although perhaps the matter of street Estimates for 1912 are
brought forward
(Independent News Agency's Service
to the China Jfit.)
baro, Feb. 3.
DEATH OF MAJOR- GENERAL SCOBELL.
(Reuters. Service to the China Mail.)
LONDON, Féb. 2.
J
The death has occurred at Cape
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Lomboy, Feb. 2. The committee of the New York
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much fewer numbers than here-to-foré.
The establishment of any religion will be forbidden.
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THE "MANOUBA" INCIDENT. FRENCH PROTEST JUSTIF ED. (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
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A telegram from Reuters Paris correspondent says it is semi-officially
uniform tolls of a dollar per ton on Role Bill the principal feature is a ships passing through the Panama contradicion of the forecast of the Daily Canul, declaring that American ships Chronicle. The Times anys the Customs cannot be favoured without abrogating and Excise will remain under Imperial the treaties with Great Britain.
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THE LEIPZIG ESPIONAGE CASE.
MR. STEWART'S DEFENCE.
of street lighting now. Your retiring Council are fully aware that the present system gives a good deal of dissatisfaction, and agree that it is antiquated and leaves much to be deafreil, and m reover they sce in agreement with a suggestion made, by M. Lecomte, that oren if the funds at the dip of the Couail do not admit of expensive improvement in JOINED THE MAJORITY the present lighting still
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wight be made to hours matters y READY FOR erecting on different point in the land (Reuter's Service to the Chino Mail) in improved type of lamp, and gradually LONDON, Feb. 2.adding to the yearly Just what type of
limp, and the gonerst details of auth scheme, must be left to the incoming Caunel, and I am defident that the will, undisvour gentlemen you sleet today, to treat M. Locumts suggestion symp
and bring the lighting athetically arrangements of the Bettlement mare in line with nodem ruggitoments,
4. Thu Bucretary reidsda
The death is announced of Sir David Nairne Welch, K.C.VO retired RN. LONDON, Feb. 2. captain, who commanded the Royal yachts Fairy and Alberta from 1848 to
Announced that twenty-seven of the (Reuter's Service to the China Afail Tarks on the Manouba who
andoubtedly members of the Red
JZD.
Crescent Society, will be allowed to proceed to Slux, in Tunis. The twenty eighth is seriously ill, and the twent ninth, whose identity is obscure, will *m not be allowed to proceed to Tonia:
ASQUITH CONSULTS
* MINISTERS,
(Baster's Service to the China „Mail.) LANDON, Feb. 2.
Mr Asmith has returned from a holiday ou the Contineat and has had an hour's conference with various Ministers.
OVER
A telegram from Reuter's agent at 1878.00 Leipzig states that Mr. Bertrand Stewart, who was charged with sccking" PORTUGUESE STRIKES to obtain certain information, admits to having tried to get a portion of it, but is his defence contends that the information was not eceret and the attempt to obtain it no offence.
MONO. VICTORIA:
A GOOD START.
GOVERNMENT HAVE
SITUATION IN HAND,
LONDON, Feb, 2
(1) A letter from E Leconte to the ouncil, eriticising the lighting of the
Highest-Class
Settlement, and making sertai suggestions CROCERIES
fur impruting sam
same, sad romanding that the incoming Council take early nction in the matter.
real
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail:)), From Capt Bithurt and other
ratepayern to the Coenda fler.
The unant sigord ratepayer dot com. Reuter's correspondient a: Lisbonsider it becomary to pay extr runt for n repots that it is oficially announced Print sidence for the Beerstry. The that the siriko je overywhere ended museale for the hapning of the Sowaifury, We Municipal Buildings were built as large that the Goverusent is master of the note that $79. Las beva chozid ta erateen (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)uation. The Clamber of Deputies the telephone to the diamonds thro
LONDON, Fab. 2. -
leasadopted a motion prolongingmartin! We consider the sente uniory in law in Lisbon for a month, and has telephone the Manici alijtelings fin The Marylebone team commenced approve of a bill providing for the tired at the night and day and al su at fiand, das vachmen, ar- bor zanth against Victoria in great summary curt-martialling of prisoners could take any o beat at Melbourne. The attendance was
in batches of 25%
The Pamir han reiterated his stafe
We consider the
lighted protected Cabinet meeting was meagre On a perfect wicket England meat that the conaries orginerred especially st Laficky tali and its vicinity Aheld in the afternson when the lost five wickets for 203, Karne scoring the strike.
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